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A EVSE not like high end electronic. It's small circuit board and a simple relay. Nothing fancy. The charger truly sits in the car and the EVSE only tells the car how much current to draw. The only thing I can see failing is the 240 -> 12v converter for the circuits board. The relay will...

You are correct, it's not bad. sorry I'm a energy efficiency nerd :P I got i3 BEV because I don't see the point of lugging around a engine which I use twice a year 3w x 8766 hours in a year = 26kwh that's more then 100 miles of driving.

As far as I know the Rex was always part of the concept. Only the US-implementation due to laws is bad. I worked with the Mini-E prototype back in 2010 in Munich. (Which had more range and power then the first i3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_E Here are some rumors I heard of...

This looks like a nice charger you got there. Yet 3w standby current is unacceptable these days. Did they put in a ancient transformer as power supply? I got a laptop which is running at less then 2w idle. With screen on! I'm in Florida, the lightning capital :P so a surge suppressor is part...

My Blink HQ100 https://blinkcharging.com/products/hq-100/ has a switch on the right side and it sounds like relay is clicking on, after that it takes a few seconds for it to boot and get ready to do something. It's a very basic charger, no monitoring, no display, only a delay button, 2 4 6 or...

The US-Style Side Mirrors are down right dangerous. A whole Truck can hide in the drivers side blind spot when you are a tall driver and to your left is the B-Pillar. But, that was a fixable problem - just ordered the Euro Style aspheric mirror - much better visibility now.

I mean it makes sense that self driving car is designed to mechanical drive more straight - needs less processing power in the computer, instead of having a vehicle which wants to run of to one side all the time.

I think something is wrong with your specific car. I test drove a few different cars and bought one last year and none had the issues you describe. We are driving quite a lot of highway - at a 120km/h , the car is solid. Don't know how fast you can drive in South Africa? Many people are...

What do you mean with disconnect? My charger has a switch on the side to shut it off and buttons to change when it charges. This is from the code book: 86-304 Disconnecting means (1) A separate disconnecting means shall be provided for each installation of electric vehicle supply equipment...

The BMW charger has 12a x 115v = 1380w - meaning 1.4KW - the battery has 30kwh usable the charger is 90% efficient 30/0.9 = 33kwh for a full charge 33kwh / 1.4kw = 23.8h for a full charge Like you said - the cheapest for faster charge would be just change that one outlet the car sits on...

I've went with a direct wire Blink 30a charger for 94ah i3 No Plug installed, just ran the gauge cable directly into the charger. It probably doesn't make that much difference - maybe 50-100$, less but I like the clean installation. The charger sits alone on the wall with no cables or plugs...

BMW i3 seat weight - around 32 lbs if I remember correctly. 3 series power leather seat - about 90lbs each :P You only need cooled seats when you get leather - no issue on fabric usually. Leather is a terrible material in my opinion :P In the olden days the lower folks used to rid in their...

Found a Multimeter, going to try it again this weekend. I know the door side of the wiring good by now - the issue is the part from the Headunit to the connector in the door frame - Have to remove the trim pieces on the rear bench. But no idea where to start, currently scouting ebay for the...

Probably the i3 should be easy to take apart. On wheel parts - if the vehicle specs are missing - I usually go by bolt size. https://applifast.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Applifast_Conversion_Table-Torque.pdf Get new bolts! they come with treat locker. If you are off by a few pound/nm feet...

I've done those types of bearings before on other cars. It's not difficult, your are right - just 4 bolts. If not stuck. You have to remove the brake caliper and then the brake rotor before you get to the bearing. Usually it separates all fairly well. Yet sometimes the rotor is rusted onto...

Just type in "BM 9306743 " at Aliexpress and you will find a handful of seller for the display. I don't know if it's the right one, but you can always ask the seller with you VIN. So far I found that the Ali sellers have pretty good customer support. If they confirm that's the correct one...

BMW apparently sells the 120ah modules cells directly: https://www.leebmann24.de/zellmodul-hochvolt-batterie-61277933747.html Not cheap, 8x 3000 euro = 24000 euro But dealers in Germany apparently can get the whole pack for around 10-12k + 2-3k in labor Which is actually very interesting...

the charge port is green and the connected drive is stating 100% While still charging on for a few minutes. My charger at work - charge point has a notification system - that when the car reaches less then 500w draw it gives me a popup that the car is done charging - that happens at least 10...

My i3 claims that it's full - but the charge point app shows it's still ramping down for another 10-15 minutes. but with you case I'm almost certain that's it's due to the KLE change and that the messed up something while updating the software.

Sorry, lost in translation - the ordering of the parts is easy - not the conversion.